Posted on 02/18/2016 4:59:48 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Trump earns support from Americans who think he has a Midas touch and will use his business skills to fix the mess President Obama has created. But a closer look at Trump’s record reveals his success story is just that -- a story. How many of his supporters know about Trump University? Trump Air? Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump ties, or the United States Football League?
Trump's business history reveals someone skilled at making money at the expense of other Americans while his businesses fail, and a man who will say almost anything about these failures. And his legacy of business failures goes beyond the four bankruptcies of his Atlantic City casinos. It includes outsourcing jobs to China, ripping off students seeking an education, and leaving a path of devastated Americans in his wake.
Just ask Louis Piatt. He put his faith in Donald Trump before he concluded Trump University was a worthless scam. Trump University was an unaccredited program that was supposed to teach ordinary Americans how to hit the big time in real estate.
Professor Donald supposedly would offer personal lessons on how to make money. In a perverse way, Trump did. Trump University made money by fleecing regular Americans who saved and paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition before it vanished. Trump University taught a harsh lesson in grifting.
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So Trump’s success is a hoax? He’s not actually a billionaire?
Wow. Mind blown. I’m only going to vote for him once now.
"Standing up to special interests requires actually doing something to stand up against special interests, not just talking about it. Standing up for American workers and families actually means doing something to open markets and promote regulatory reform, not just hypocritically talking about it while looking out for himself at the expense of others."
"Then there was Trump Air. The man who wants to be president managed to crash an airline focused on the lucrative Washington to New York shuttle market. Instead of offering a better product, Trump attempted to beat the competing Pan Am Shuttle by blustering that his competitor wasn’t safe. If that wasn’t enough, Trump wanted to overhaul his planes in style only Woody Allen’s Frenchy Fox-Winkler could appreciate. Trump wanted marble vanities in the lavatories and brass handles on the emergency exit handles."
Trump needs to learn how to think like a politician.
What has Obama accomplished? Obamacare? Is it a success?
Golly Gee Batman, some of Donald Trump’s business ventures didn’t pan out?!! What ever should we do? Who should we vote for now?
Everybody gets knocked down. The measure of the man is whether he gets up again. Trump has gotten up, dusted himself off, and rejoined the game time and again.
He is “the man in the arena”, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt.
Excellent post!
And how is someone measured in the public sector?
And Ted Cruz has not had ANY business failures!!! Not a single one!!! Of course Ted Cruz hasn’t had any business successes, either.
The barrage of anti-Trump propaganda FUELED by the Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, and George Soros... To name a few.
The barrage of anti-Trump propaganda FUELED by the Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, and George Soros... To name a few.
Successful entrepreneurs keep trying even when some ideas don't pan out.
I've done a little venture capital in my career and I can tell you that most new ventures don't pan out. But the ones that do make enough money to compensate for the ones that don't.
You don't judge a venture capital fund by their investments that fail but by the overall return on investment.
You can’t reason with a “trumpet”. Just look at the responses here already.
i find it amusing, quite funny actually that people who lack the initiative to go into business, that lack the courage to take a risk, to worry about raising the money to build a business come out and snipe at Trump who has done all those things.
It is the height of sour grapes and envy
it is just plain ‘ol low class
Lesson One: Entrepreneurs NEVER FAIL.
Like that loser Henry Ford, who founded two automobile companies that failed, leaving investors $2.1 million in the hole. Thank God they never trusted him to try again.
Can't wait for Professor Adams' next lecture!
Well, he is running on his business record and acumen. This is Trump’s record. Will you not even look at the troubling signs there?
Have you considered that maybe these business ventures didn’t pan out due to mismanagement? We are talking about someone wanting to be the chief executive of our nation here.
Or that the original investors who invested in the first place based their decision on misrepresentation? You know, making them believe something that was not true? Like he brags about doing in his book.
But of course he only does that to people he wants money from, not people he wants votes from.
Where is the Cruz Tower? In Canada?
Nothing!
Either as a State OR US Senator. Yet, he still got elected because the American electorate votes purely on feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.
When I ask people "why did you vote for Obama? What has he ever done that makes him fit to be president?"
All I ever got was platitudes.....sad when you think of it.
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